Innovative Systems Approach for Facilitating Smarter World / Design Science and Innovation (PDF)

Toshiya KAIHARA is a Professor of Graduate School of System Informatics, and Director of Value Creation Smart Production Research Centre at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, and the Ph.D. and DIC from Imperial College London, London, UK. His research interests include systems optimization and simulation, and their application into production, service, and social systems. He is author of more than 450 publications. He is an editor and author of book: Innovative Systems Approach for Designing Smarter World (2020) of Springer. He is a member of JSME(Fellow), IEEJ(Fellow), EAJ, ISCIE, SICE, JSPE, ORSJ, SSJ, CIRP(Fellow), IFAC, IFIP, IEEE, and others.



Hajime KITA is a Professor at Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University in Japan. He received his PhD degree from Kyoto University. His research interests are evolutionary computation, social simulation and education of informatics in university. He is author and editor of books: Agent-Based Simulation: From Modelling Methodologies to Real-World Applications (2005), Control of Traffic Systems in Buildings (2006), Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems V (2009), Realistic Simulation of Financial Markets (2016) of Springer.



Shingo TAKAHASHI is Professor of the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering and Director of Institute for Social Simulation at Waseda University. He holds MS and PhD in Systems Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology. His current research interests include: modeling and simulation of social systems as complex adaptive systems, especially focusing on agent-based social simulation and soft systems thinking as practice, aimed at applying to soft, i.e. ill-structured, problem situations involving various people with plural world views.



Dr. Motohisa FUNABASHI is a System Scientist. He graduated from Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto